Whilst I enjoyed avatar, I didn't personally rate it as highly as any of the three* star wars films, the first matrix, or what I perceive as other sci-fi classics such as The Cube, Metropolis, Bladerunner, or Sunshine - all of which I would happily go back to the cinema to see.

My reasoning? I personally found the plot devices a little obvious and the story quite linear. I found the exploration of pandora delightful, the film charming, but felt it lacked some of the depth that would have been needed to make it one of my all time favorites. That said, movies are a personal thing, and one man can get out of friends what another would from spaced.

* my opinion of the most recent triligy of films sharing the title mentioned is similar to that expressed in south park's excellent critique of the most recent Indiany Jones film.

Hi, I've enjoyed reading your blogs, and found this one particulary interesting - I really enjoyed reading the rakudo metamodel spec. I can't promise any helpfull feedback but, hopefully, given time ( fingers crossed ), I hope to have a play in this area.

Many many thanks - the moral support is much appreciatted.
I was contemplating dropping it as keeping a commentry takes time away from learning, and also truthfully narrating such is a little like airing ones undies in public, so I'm very greatful for your kind comment.

A little more work. Following some wise words in masak's journal about starting simple, I decided to take further tentative tiptoes
further towards my target of a transparent Role-As-Interface based RMI system
by first of all just hacking together a call from client to server.
Following a visit to the lovely people on #perl6 I got a pointer to the
perl6 test suite which, when
read with

I don't know the exact details of the situation you describe, but in situations I have experienced that exhibit similar indicators, there has been a fear to rewrite/refactor. One of the syptoms of this has been the error of enforced duplication by "doing it right from here on in" (which for some reason, some people seem to think can be done effectivly without altering existing code ). Could it be that the codebase is growing brittle and the need to increase the team could be a symptom of a problem rather than a cure?

Was merely a wild stab in the dark, perhaps based on me assuming it might have something to do with unicode from a possible "intl" angle.

So - explain - no. A wild guess rather than a result of analysis, and not a particulary good one by the sounds of your studies. At some point after that, I gave up on the windows binary distribution of parrot, and switched to compiling the sources - also changing the location of them to ensure the directory containing the source didn't contain spaces. After that, most of the errors and mistakes were just down to my distracted state, and messing up environment variables - which could have had a contributory effect to the earlier problems.

Hope that explains things - I'm very sorry if you've wasted time as a result of my notes...